Biskit

maintain and more convenient to use: The module Biskit.test
automatically collects and runs (unittest) test cases from across the
whole package and allows to skip or include tests depending on TAGS or
package. The Biskit.PVM package has been re-arranged: The compilation
of the built-in pypvm_core module used to be a notorious trouble
maker. We have now outsourced and re-packaged pypvm into a standard
distutils package that compiles and installs more smoothly. Besides,
many bugs were fixed (especially in the Biskit.Mod module) and both
code and documentation were polished in several places.

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This is the first 'official' release of Biskit. However, we are
working on (and using) this project since 2001 and what you are
looking at could most fairly be called generation 2 or 3 -- that's why
we are not starting at revision 1.0 here. Until now, we still have
been referring everybody to the CVS server for fetching the
package. This is still recommended if you want to do serious work with
it but the pre-packaged release may be more convenient for evaluation
purposes or simple tasks.


Installation
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Up-to-date installation instructions can be found online:

* http://biskit.pasteur.fr/install

More detailed instructions for installing the different third-party
packages can be found here:
http://biskit.pasteur.fr/install/libraries

The installation of helper applications is described here:
http://biskit.pasteur.fr/install/applist
http://biskit.pasteur.fr/install/applications